Welcome to Mykonis, Greece

Along the whitewashed streets stand brilliant white box-shaped houses with stepped walls for sitting on, wooden doors and windows with brightly colored balconies. These are interspered with small but impressive churches, pretty little cafes and shops selling souvenirs.  Mykonos feels “unreal” …. like a movie set, not a place where real people live and work.

Like all the islands of Greece, Mykonos has fishing as a primary industry.  The local fishermen bring their catch in and clean and fillet them on a MARBLE TABLE!  It would only in Greece….I’m telling you!   The wharf is also lined with vendors selling all sorts of vegetables in a sort of small “Farmers Market’ that must happen here every day.

We visited the Maritime Museum which was interesting – especially the stuff on the early, early boats and contraptions used to float such as the “Assyrian Raft Floating on Skins,” constructed as a raft of logs or tree branches that floated on sheep and goat skins that had been dried, sew up, and inflated with air, then tied to the bottom of the raft.   The same idea was also used as the ‘original life preservers’  

Mykonos is known for its sandy beaches that offer crystal clear waters for swimming and snorkeling, however, the beach near the port was so rocky Nancy could barely wade as few feet in it barefoot.

Having the time of our lives.....in Mykonis!@

Norm & Nancy